Tuesday 6/21 Class Deadly sins/Saving virtues Lust
Must lust always be sexual? Is lusting making an object of a person, a relationship?

Is sexting lustful? to what degree is advertising based on lust?

How is it related to greed and gluttony and envy?
Jesus links adultery with lusting (desire/craving/coveting) in the heart in the sermon on the mount.
Our writer gives chastity as the opponent of lust. Can chastity ever be potentially harmful?

 

Donald Capps speaks, with Erikson, of fidelity as a saving virtue. Not surprisingly, he links it to the stage of adolescence. What are the difficulties in fidelity? Differences in male and female lust?

Emotional lusting in a marriage? Can one lust for one's partner in marriage?

Capps- lust enemy of intimacy-looks for unrestrained gratification of senses-isolates-may be self-socially irresponsible-overmastering desire,lust has no partners

All the deadly sins speak of an orientation to an orientation to life, not only discrete acts.